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Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

Gus Gikas landed in the United States in New York City, New York when he returned from India. From there, he went to...

Before they [Annotator's Note: Masaji Inoshita and his fellow interpreter, Sergeant Edwin Sasaki] got to their final...

Cleveland Peterson heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor after boarding a ship in San Francisco, California...

Harold Daniel Snyder's most memorable experience was the closest he came to being knocked off [Annotator's Note: as a...

Joseph Silvia thought the caste system in India was odd. The Americans lived like kings compared to the British there....

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

Perry Garten flew gliders in India and Burma. The storage and troop transport area within the glider was very limited....

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

The first place Brooks was taken to was a building. The men were fed once a day by the natives who brought them soup....

George Rudloff was sent to India via Australia. He arrived at Chandigarh which was a staging area in India. From there...

Carl Constein reported to Reno [Annotator’s Note: Reno, Nevada] to complete transition training on a C-46 [Annotator’s...

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